Dryden: Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Congreve, Johnson, Scott and OthersClarendon Press, 1925 - 204 sivua |
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Sivu vi
... gives his estimate of the greatest poets ; as prose - writer he is master of a style which is equally adaptable to the commonplaces of exposition , the cut and thrust of controversy , and the intimacies of conviction . In every kind of ...
... gives his estimate of the greatest poets ; as prose - writer he is master of a style which is equally adaptable to the commonplaces of exposition , the cut and thrust of controversy , and the intimacies of conviction . In every kind of ...
Sivu vii
... give them the other harmony of prose . ' 1 Dryden's development was unusually pro- tracted , but it never ceased . He never felt that his real work had been done but was always pressing on to some- thing new ; and at no time of his life ...
... give them the other harmony of prose . ' 1 Dryden's development was unusually pro- tracted , but it never ceased . He never felt that his real work had been done but was always pressing on to some- thing new ; and at no time of his life ...
Sivu x
... give us short passages which might be by Pope ; but once we have caught the note of Dryden's verse we do not mistake another's heroic couplets for his . He established these couplets as one of the chief forms of modern poetry , and he ...
... give us short passages which might be by Pope ; but once we have caught the note of Dryden's verse we do not mistake another's heroic couplets for his . He established these couplets as one of the chief forms of modern poetry , and he ...
Sivu xiv
... give a fair idea of his powers . It was not his habit to work up to great passages , but rather to give us his good things as they came to him ; and they came as frequently at once as later . If after a brilliant beginning he trips and ...
... give a fair idea of his powers . It was not his habit to work up to great passages , but rather to give us his good things as they came to him ; and they came as frequently at once as later . If after a brilliant beginning he trips and ...
Sivu 6
... gives his master Charles : His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
... gives his master Charles : His conversation , wit , and parts , His knowledge in the noblest useful arts , Were such , dead authors could not give , But habitudes of those that live ; Who , lighting him , did greater lights receive : He ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Aeneid Albion and Albanius Alexander's Feast ancient Anne Killigrew Antony Aureng-zebe Baucis and Philemon beauty Ben Jonson betwixt Boccace Canterbury Tales Cecilia's Day character Charles Chaucer Congreve couplet Cowley Crites criticism Cymon Decameron dramas Dramatic Poesy Dryden wrote Duke edition English Epistles Essays Eugenius excellence Fables fair Fate father fire friends genius give happy hast Heaven heroic heroic couplet Homer honour Horace John Bayes Jonson judge Juvenal King knew language lines Lisideius lived Lord MacFlecknoe Medal mind modern nature never numbers Ovid passage passion perhaps Persius Pindaric play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise Preface prose published reader reason rhyme Roman satire Satire of Juvenal sense Shadwell Shakespeare song soul speak stanza Tale thee Thomas Shadwell thou thought translation Vent verse Virgil words writ write written Zimri ΙΟ
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Sivu 150 - All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Sivu 114 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Sivu 150 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Sivu 53 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Sivu 69 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied. And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else why should he, with wealth and honor blest.
Sivu 107 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
Sivu 118 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before.
Sivu 74 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Sivu 82 - ALL human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire, and had governed long. In prose and verse was owned, without dispute, Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Sivu 152 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies, and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.